Level device.



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LEVEL DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3, 191'?.

Application led December 27, 1913, Serial No. 809,011. Renewed August 25, 191.6.` Serial No. 116,936.

To all 'whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH F. IsoM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Augusta, in the county of Richmond and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Level Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to carpenters and bricklayers levels, thepri'maryobject being to provide a level device which will be 'very accurate in use and is adapted to be attached readily to any straight edged stock,

or the stock of the ordinary form of level for use thereon.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be used with equal accuracy in level and plumb work, and which has a compass associated therewith for use in obtaining latitude during the leveling operations.

A still further object is to provide a level device of the class described which is extremely simplel in construction, which will be cheap in the cost of manufactureand easy to operate and which may be attached to or removed from the level stock with which it is to be used quickly and conveniently.

The invention consists in the features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described andi claimed, reference being had to the accom panying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a level stock of ordinary construction, showing the device of my invention `mounted thereon, the compass being` in its inoperative position' Fig. 2 is a transverse rsectional view through the device; and,

Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing the compass in its operative position. v

ln the drawing. the numeral 1 desi` ates the stock of a well-known type of leve upon which my improved level device is to be mounted. The flat, circular body 2 of the device is adapted to be positioned against one side face of the stock 1 with the horizontal portion 3 of an attaching member A, which is connected with the bodyat the upper edge thereof overlying;` the top face of the stock. The attaching member" is constructed of resilient material and its outerl end portion 5 is bent downwardly to form a yieldable clip for secure engagement with the opposite side face of the stock. An annular tube 6 of gla 0r other transparent material is secured against the front face of the body 2 by means vci? the marginal Bange 7 of the latter. This tube is adapted to be half-filled with a heavy liquid such as mercury, or the like, and the front face f the body is provided with a scale 8 which 1s exposed through the transparent tube and divides the same into quadrants and the quadrants 'into degrees. `The diametrical lines which divide the scale into quadrants are disposed parallel to and at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the stock respectively, when the device is mounted thereon.

lt should be apparent that this device may be used equally well in plumb and level work, or in obtaining the angular pitch or inclination of rafters and inclined surfaces.

In order that the device may be used in obtaining latitude in leveling operations, a compass-holding member 9 is pivoted medially upon the front face of the body 2 inward of the tube 6 for movement in a plane parallel to the said body by means of the pivot member l0. The member 9 is provided at its upper end with an outwardly extending arm 11 to which the compass casing 12 is connected by means of a hinged joint. A spring 13 is adapted normally to maintain the compass in its operative position disposed at right angles to the body, but the compass is adapted to be folded inwardly against the outer face of the holding member 9 when it is not desired for active use. An outwardly projecting resilient tongue 14 is provided upon the lower end of the member 9 for engagement with the compass casing 12, when in its inoperative position to secure the same therein.

Several methods by which the spirit tube may be mounted within the securing fiange of the body of the device should suggest themselves to the mechanic u on whom the work of manufacturing thel invention may 10( devolve, in view of the disclosure. An obvious expedient is to construct the body and consequently the Hange of malleable metal such as brass or the like and to form the flange initially of suicient diameter topermit the insertion of the tube therein with ease,"whereupon the :tree edge of the flange may be crimped or otherwise bent inwardly to a slight extent, just suicientto secure the tube against lateral movement. The tube lll@ may be cemented Within the flangev if nec-V essary to prevent circumferential movement"` of the same.

What is claimed is:

the stock, means forrsecuring the body detachablyf `to fthe' stock, la r holding' member mountedfupo'nthefrouteriface yof the body medially thereof forf'movement parallel 'to the plane of theface ofthe body,v and a magnetidcompass hinged to one terminal of'the holding member/and adapted tobe swungto aposition at right angles to the flat bodyforaobtaining.latitude in leveling f 2'. The .comb'ination-yvth `az level stoclQof a `level device having a flat body adapted to be positioned against one side face of the stock, a `means for securing the body detachably to the, stock, a holding member mounted upon the outer face of the body medially thereof They combination with. a level stock, of

a level device'comprising a flat bodyadapt# ed yto be positioned .against one side face-of;-

for movement in a plane parallel to the face of the body, a magnetic compass hinged to one terminalbf thev holding member and adapted to be swung outwardly of and to a position at right angles tothe flat body for obtaining latitude in leveling operations, and means for retaining the holding` member in the latter mentioned position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH F. ISOM.

i Witnesses:

' S.B. OWENS, J. C. FRASER. 

